In
1957 Reinhold Voll, M.D., of Germany, announced his studies of the points on the
skin that were used by acupuncturists. [He built on work of
Yoshio
Nakatani, whose AcuGraph technology I use.] He correlated measurement of resistivity
with known health problems. He discovered that when beneficial substances were
placed near the body, there was a change in the resistivity at acupoints related
to the organ system that would benefit from the substance if it were ingested.
This and other aspects of his discovery have been incorporated into the
technology of several companies.

I
have trained in different devices using this technology. I have known many
doctors who use it. Its noninvasive biofeedback "dialogue with the
body" has been described as so important that Burton Goldberg, founder of
AlternativeMedicine.com, said that in the future any office that does not offer
this could be guilty of malpractice.

The
comparison of EDS/EAV to Autonomic Response Testing is an important topic in
leading edge clinics. Each assesses a slightly different aspect of human
physiology. If this is new to you, welcome to the frontier, with many competing
companies. We will benefit from the healthy competition among the companies.

My first assessment by EAV was by Doug Leber with
his
Acupro/Computron [site]:

Another physician who has evaluated
meridian stress assessment in his office is William Rea, M.D. from
Dallas, an internationally known pioneer in environmental medicine. Besides
serving as the director of the Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Dr.
Rea has been appointed as the First World Professional Chair in
Environmental Medicine, University of Surrey, England. Dr. Rea set up a
simple double-blind study using a number of people who had reacted
adversely to a challenge test with various antigens, and for whom an
optimal treatment dosage had been found to turn off those reactions.
Neither the patients nor the instrument operator knew the correct dosage.
A series of dilutions were tested, and the electronic instrument
identified the correct optimal treatment dosage out of 12 to 20 options in
approximately 80 percent of the cases. Virtually all of the “misses”
were within 1 dilution of the optimal dose dilution determined by trial
and error, making it easy to find the optimal dose in those “misses.”
Dr. Rea describes using these instruments as part of his practice to find
optimal treatment doses for very sensitive patients before provoking
symptoms, so that he can quickly administer an effective treatment dose in
case of severe reactions.

"[I once
attended]...Shady grove Adventist Hospital Grand Rounds, presented by Dr.
William Rea. His talk was one of the most memorable I have ever heard. He
was reviewing the Ground Regulating System (GRS) and its impact on
information transfer throughout the body. Dr. Rea's presentation was my
first connection linking anatomy to acupuncture and the body's
bioelectrical system.

"After
the meeting [I was invited] to other gatherings of environmentally
oriented health care practitioners... I was a "doubting
Thomas"... I finally...attended Dr. Rea's meeting in February 1996 -
'The 14th Annual International Symposium of Man and his Environment.' ...I
was so skeptical that I continued to say to my wife: 'I'm going, but I
won't believe a word of it!' Much to my surprise..."